Tiny Towns*
Tiny Towns is a charming and strategic board game where players take on the role of mayors building their own tiny towns in a forest. The game challenges players to manage resources wisely and plan their towns carefully to maximize prosperity.
Gameplay Overview
- Town Building Theme: Players are mayors of tiny towns in a forest, building a civilization for small woodland creatures.
- Resource Management: Scarce resources must be cleverly managed to construct buildings and develop the town.
- Spatial Planning: A 4x4 grid represents your town, where you place resource cubes to construct various buildings.
Special Features
- Building Construction: Each building scores victory points in different ways, adding variety to the strategies.
- End Game Conditions: The game ends when players can no longer place resources or construct buildings. Unfilled squares result in negative points.
- Victory Points System: Players aim to have the most victory points, gained from efficiently built structures and minimized waste.
Conclusion
Tiny Towns is ideal for players who enjoy puzzle-like spatial planning and resource management. It's a game that combines simplicity in its rules with depth in its strategic choices, making it accessible yet challenging. Players must think ahead and adapt their strategies based on available resources and the evolving layout of their towns. With its engaging theme and thoughtful gameplay, Tiny Towns is a delightful experience for players looking for a compact yet richly rewarding board game.
Nominated for 9 awards and won 2.
- 1 - 6 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
We like Tiny Towns so much that we recommend it in the following board game recommendation lists 2024
- Position 37 in All games from the Top100 "Hunter & Cron Award 2020" list 🇩🇪
- Position 32 in All games from the Top100 "Hunter & Cron Award 2021" list 🇩🇪
- Position 25 in The best city building games 🏗
- Position 18 in The Best Games from Alderac Entertainment Group 🇺🇸🏢
- Position 15 in The best games in which you can cover a grid or area
- Position 47 in The best games presented at the Spiel 2019 game fair in Essen, Germany
- Position 2 in The best games where you can follow your own action to that of another player
- Position 16 in The best games with alternating starting player each round
- Position 13 in The best games with square grid ◻️
- Position 6 in The best games with Variable Phase Order
- Position 28 in The Best "Gouden Ludo🇧🇪" winners and nominees
- Position 30 in The best puzzle board, card & dice games
- Position 34 in The best "Spiel der Spiele🇦🇹" board games